Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-30
FIRE HUNGRY FOR FLESH
MANY NARROW ESCAPES FROM
A BLAZE At TROY.

The Fire Believed to Have Been oi
InoeBdiary Origiu-The Loss $50, ,O0n
and the Insurance SI32, ,7OO-Sever-t
Firms Burned Out at CoIumbus-Tbs
Insurance on the West Point Mills.
TROY, n. Y, March 29.-The Caswel
building, occupied principally by Fessen-
den, Lambert & Tower, dry goods dealers,
was destroyed by fire at 4 O'Clock this
morning, and the Fulton street front Of
the Boardman building was damaged.
+. j. Barnes, a dealer In woolen goods,
Max Sinshemer, milliner, and Kate A.
Murphy, milliner, lost all their stock,
which was partially insured. j. TEN.
pane, ieweer, and other occupants oil
the Boardman building sustained slight
losses, Several occupants of the
Boardman building had narrow
escapes. l.. A. Morrisey, a
sick man, was carried out on a bed, and
Mrs. +. l.. Sheldon's bed was on fire %
she lett her room. rhe fire originated In
the Caswell building, in the basement ot
the store OF Fessenden, Lam bert & Tower,
and burned rapidly. A man named Con-
rad, watcbman at the store where the
fire was discovered, was taken to police
headquarters ana questioned by Supt.
Willard this morning. The tiremen say
there was something mysterious about.
the rapid spread of the flames, as the fire
burst out In several places at once. The
total l0ss was $3.50, 900 and the insurance
$l32, 700.
FATHER AND THREE CHILDREN PERISH,
lTHICA, N. y, March ga special
this morning states that a dwelling house
occupied by Matthew Massick, at Ludlow.
vile, 10 miles from this place, was burned
between II and | O'Clock this mornlng
Mr. NJ a oh
ished in the flames. The Coroner is in.
vestigating the case. Mr.. Massick was
an employe OF the Lehigh Valley rail.
road.
HEAVY LOSSES AT COLUMBUS.
COLUMBUS, GA, March 29.-Fire this
morning destroyed the shoe store OF W.
X. Bedell. and the clothing store of J. X,
Harris IL Co. MIR. BedelPs loss is $11 600
and his Insurance $1,000. Harris & Co.'s
loss is $4,000, insurance $4,000. j. A.
hIrver u Co.'s dry goods store was slight.
ly damaged by smoke and water but the
loss is covered by insurance.
The StorehOu5eS were the property of
the Georgia Home Insurance Company,
and were insured for $4,000 in the Ham
burg Bremen Company, which will repair
the damage,
WEST POINTS BURNED MILLS.
The fire at the West Point cotton mills,
IOchIeu SIX miles DeIOW w est POlnts
caught in the wheel house. The fire soon
burned the belt that runs the pumps, thus
rendering them useless. The mills burned
rapidly and were soon reduced to ashes,
together with an elegant grist mill ad.
joining. The picker room ard warehous
with 1000 bales of cotton were saved. The
mills are insured for 100000 in the fol.
lowing companies: North America, $10,.
eco; Georgia Home Insurance Company,
$l9, 900; Hamburg-Bremen, 81 800; Rome
Fire Insurance Company, 1000; Macon
Fire Insurance Company, 5000; Home
Insurance Company, $500; Scottish
Union and London, $40, 600; Lion, $4,000;
Germania, of New York, $4,000; Queen,
Of Liverpool; $4,000; Underwriters,
$500; Fire Association, $1,000: North
erD, $4,000; 6ermEh-American, of New
YORK, $500; Royal, $40, 600; London and
Liverpool, $500; Southern Mutual,
$4,000; Central and Mutual, Chicago,
$4,000; Manufacturing and Mercantile
Mutual, $4,000; Western Manufacturing
Mutual, $4,000. This throws 200 oper-
atives out or employment, comprising
with their families 800 people. These mills
were the best equipped duck mills in the
south The principal owners, w. al,
Lanier, OF West Point, say they will re.
build at once.